J. R. Vinckel, School Supt. At Blair and Arlington, Died Jan. 4

J. R. Vinckle, Superintendent of the Blair schools from July 1939 to September 1942, and earlier, Superintendent of Schools at Arlington, died January 4th at the Cambridge, Nebraska, community hospital. He had been in failing health for several years.

Mr. Vinckel was born at Ashton, Iowa, May 12, 1902, and would have been 76 years of age in the Spring. He grew up in Iowa, attended school and entered the teaching profession. He had taught school in Illinois, at Farnam, Nebraska, Red Willow, Nebraska, and finally at Arlington and then at Blair. He served as Superintendent of Schools at both Arlington and Blair.

He was a veteran of World War II, having served his country from 1942 until 1945. He was a member of the American Legion and was also a Mason. He was married to Fern DeArmond, a former Blair teacher, on May 15th, 1941. It was his second marriage, his first wife having died while he was Superintendent of Schools at Arlington.

For a brief period at the close of his military service, he was associated with a brother in the farm equipment business in Illinois. He then returned to school work.

There were no children by either marriage.

He is survived by his wife, Fern, and by a brother, Eugene of Merced, California.

Funeral services were held at the Bartley, Nebraska Christian Church Saturday, January 7th. Burial was made at Bartley.

Mr. and Mrs. Vinckel had lived at Bartley for the past ten years.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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